...when the wind farm get-rich-quick craze hit our mountains the energy hustlers offered contracts to land owners...the contract specified that the cost of putting up the turbine would be paid for by the windfarm....there was NOTHING about who pays to take the turbine down!...when the govt subsidy runs out the countyside will have abandoned 38 story eyesores.
....just wait and see what happens when one of these windmills chop up a flock of, say, Whooping Cranes....or the last of the Condors...heh heh
Bingo! That's what we found out. Plus they're ugly, the whine can cause all sorts of reactions to those near enough (jury still out on that), and they kill birds.
The birds may eventually adapt their flight path, but even little birds haven't learned not to fly into plate glass.
I'm more for those smaller windmills that for one local acreage owner or farmer seems to have paid for itself in 7 years or less, it supplies all his electricity needs, and he has extra to sell back to the grid at the going rate.
I don't know what they would be in terms of maintenance costs, however. Every farmer who would want one of those smaller ones, I'd be all for that.
Interesting this comes at the same time the old-fashioned windmills have mostly disappeared, and the ones that remain, there is a nostalgia for and many find them of photographic interest as some also do with the huge, monster ones.
I’m still waiting for the PERFECT, non polluting, no carbon footprint energy source that doesn’t offend any limosine liberals.